21.09.2008
32 Santal Parganas People carved wooden panels of the wedding (litters) Palkee, and a stilistic comparation with some Tharu panels .Santal Tribe. Indian Tribal Art. Indian carved panels. ETHNOFLORENCE COLLECTION.
"... WHEN A SANTAL CRAFSMAN BEGINS HIS WORK ON THE LITTER, A PAIR OF PIGEONS IS SACRIFICED .....WHEN THE LITTER IS COMPLETED AND ITS OWENER TAKEN POSSESSION TWO MORE PIGEONS ARE PART OF ANOTHER SACRIFICE ... THE ACTIVITY OF CARVING IS PART OF THE MARRIAGE RITE, AS IS THE PROCESSION OF THE MARRIAGE LITTER..." (Unknown India: Ritual Art in Tribe and Village, Stella Kramrisch, Philadelphia 1968)

Low relief narrative carvings, in an extremely frontal profile style, using the words of Ms Stella Kramrisch "...somehow paralleling Egyptian reliefs...".



N1 Detail.

" I cavalieri rovesciati sono i Miracoli. L'idea è che essi si distruggono, diventano elemento bruciato ... Il cavaliere non sta più bene sulla terra, vuol bucare la crosta terrestre, sforare nel cosmo. Non gli è consentito stare tra gli uomini che tranquilli non sono più. Il cavallo cede e il cavaliere si perde" (Marino Marini)

Detail.

Another part of the procession.

Detail.

Detail.

Detail.
Procession.

Monumental frontal view.
For a comparation with the primitive sculpture style of Western Nepal see an interesting group of 15 pieces on http://ethnoflorence.skynetblogs.be/post/6054638/7-wester... other pieces on http://ethnoflorence.skynetblogs.be/post/6268451/28-santa... .
Another group of sculptures on http://ethnoflorence.skynetblogs.be/post/6210825/western-... and http://ethnoflorence.skynetblogs.be/post/6305346/four-pri... .
A Western Nepal primitive reliquary sculpture is edited on http://ethnoflorence.skynetblogs.be/post/6220844/western-... .
An interesting collection of Santal Parganas scroll paintings is edited by Hervé Pedriolle on http://santalparganas.blogspot.com/ .

Detail.

Detail.

Raider.

Detail.

Detail.

Santal Hul. "Hul "is a Santali term, it means a movement for liberation and remember the Santal insurrection of the 1855 (read more on "Santal Hul insurrection of Santal 1855-56: Expoits of Sidhu, Kanhu, Chand and Bhairab" by P. Sinha).

N2 Santal Hul.

Santal Hul.

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